The Rude Pundit swore last night he wasn't going to read former uber-blogger Andrew Sullivan's "Didja miss me?" of an overlong piece on the death of democracy in New York magazine.  He read the first line, "As this dystopian election campaign has unfolded, my mind keeps being tugged by a passage in Plato’s Republic," and told himself that this was going to be the ne plus ultra of douchey faux intellectualism.  Then he skimmed the thing and came Continue Reading...

Ah, John Kasich, you who are supposed to be the calm, reasonable substitute for the savage Trump and the viperous Cruz.  You and your aw-schucks demeanor and golly-gee-whizzos attitude toward being allowed in the big ol' game after coming from little ol' Ohio (the seventh largest state by population in the country, with a shit-ton of cities), goddamn, you are such a scum-licking pigfucker it's a wonder someone isn't assigned to punch you in your Continue Reading...

You fucking idiots in the mainstream media.  The Rude Pundit, among others on the left and the right, warned you from the start that a Donald Trump campaign for the presidency was going to wreak havoc upon the landscape.  But you didn't listen.  Or you put your fingers in your ears and La-la-la'd yourselves as the ratings and page views soared.  And now look what you've done.  First you pretended that Trump was a buffoon and that his candidacy Continue Reading...

Last Friday, David Brooks, in his New York Times "column" (if by "column," you mean, "the gurgles of drowning elitism"), sought to find the source of the River Trump that is flooding the Republican areas of the country right now.  Brooks locates that lake high in the mountains of what he perceives as a general dismay with politics.  "Over the past generation we have seen the rise of a group of people who are against politics," Brooks writes. Continue Reading...

In his second day in office, Louisiana's new Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards, signed an executive order to expand Medicaid in his state under the Affordable Care Act.  As you know, Obamacare was supposed to be "job-killing," except for the part where millions of new jobs have been created in the private sector since it became the law of the land.  Edwards was able to do this without the state legislature because, in its quite finite wisdom, Continue Reading...

Next Tuesday is the deadline for signing up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act, so the high-dudgeon fuckery is in full-tilt to try to depress the numbers and discredit the law so President Trump can just toss the whole thing in the shitcan in 2017 and deport all the sick people.  Thus, as part of this Republican effort, Tennessee Congresswoman Diane Black took to the floor of the House of Representatives to say that the longtime Continue Reading...

In Detroit, just this past June, a 14-year-old boy was arrested for intent to murder and felonious assault.  The teenager, upset about something, fired a weapon in his home and injured his mom.  While he could be tried as a juvenile, he might be "sentenced as an adult" or be given a "blended" juvenile and adult sentence. In Flint, Michigan, just down the road, in April, a 14-year-old boy was arrested for assaulting his mother while she was Continue Reading...

Here's a story the Rude Pundit might have told at some point - who knows after a dozen years of daily shit - but it bears telling here: Back in 2007 and 2008, the Rude Pundit was all about the Obama love.  He went for Obama before it was cool because he saw that the man was gonna lead a movement that the country desperately needed.  He went into it eyes open, aware that Obama was a slightly left-of-center Democrat, not the second coming of one Continue Reading...

The cries of "What about the babeeeez?" get louder and louder as the delusional dogs of the right and their opportunistic fleas demand that no more government tax dollars go to Planned Parenthood.  Even as the fake organization that set up a fake sting to get fake videos to fake a scandal release yet another bullshit tape that purports to show skeevy activity, motherfuckin' true believers are takin' it to the motherfuckin' wall.  Government Continue Reading...

In some ways, it's a sad waste of time to write about Mike Huckabee, currently running for the GOP nomination for president.  He doesn't have a snowball's chance in global warming of winning.  His whole campaign reeks of self-promotion to keep Huckabee, Inc. in business for another few years.  You can boil down his entire reason for running to a slogan: "Mike Huckabee: Because Who Doesn't Want a Cruel Prick Who Sounds Like a Backwoods Ass Rapist Continue Reading...

You can remember learning in school or at a museum or maybe on the Discovery Channel about human sacrifice in ancient or distant cultures, whether it was the temples of the Aztecs and Incans down south or the bogs of the British Isles, where the Celts performed their rituals.  You can remember how you felt: the gruesome fascination followed by disbelief at the stupidity of the reasons.  Killing the slaves of a dead master?  Ludicrous.  And the Continue Reading...

A crazy white man named Cox is helping put black people to death in northwest Louisiana.  Articles in both the New York Times and the New Yorker (yeah, yankee liberals.  So?) detail the deep desire of acting district attorney Dale Cox of Caddo Parish to kill people, mostly black men.  Caddo Parish juries are responsible for sentencing more people to death per capita than any other county in the country.  77% of those sentenced are black.  If you Continue Reading...

We know, right?  We know that, at the end of the discussion, after we've talked about racism and hatred and mental illness, what remains are the guns.  No, you won't get rid of racism and hatred and mental illness by taking the guns away, but nothing will ever get rid of that.  Those aren't tangible things.  Ideas can't be taken out of someone's hands, alive and warm or cold and dead, melted down, and eliminated. Continue Reading...

Senator Lindsey Graham, the prettiest Scarlett O'Hara wannabe in DC, is running for president because "I think the world is falling apart."  That's the kind of drama queen stuff that'd make the contestants on RuPaul's Drag Race say, "Oh, butch it up a little, Mary." Continue Reading...